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Definition of degenerate:

  • (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
  • (verb) grow worse
  • (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality

Sentence Examples:

His face degenerated into a puzzled state.

What a grievance is government so degenerated?

It's rid you of a drunken degenerate.

Obedience is the sign of the degenerate.

Degenerate morals keep pace with civil contests.

When art became a utility, it degenerated.

An ancient race may have a degenerate offspring.

Does she then believe us to be degenerated?

Reading such degenerates the mental powers.

Not for me be so degenerate a meal!

The women did not all degenerate.

Progress good; not degenerating nor decreasing.

I have a degenerate brain and no eyes.

This is the name of a degenerate dog.

It may be regarded as a degenerate form.

Such a type is said to be degenerate.

In process of time of course they degenerated.

Is there no courage in this degenerate race?

The stage has most deeply degenerated.

Degenerate morals kept pace with civil contests.

The Wallah-Wallahs are a degenerate, worn-out tribe.

It had been degenerating day by day.

Such states degenerate rapidly in military strength.

It does not pay with these degenerates.

The eclipse should not degenerate into night.

The whole degenerates into an acted parable.

Your country degenerate, your morals all wrong.

He maintained the Sixth was not degenerate.

I'm afraid you'll think I've degenerated sadly.

She was already in her degenerate stage.

Texts degenerate in accordance with certain laws.

Rarely some degenerate plant bears white flowers.

Youthful obesity occurs in descendants of degenerates.

The battle degenerated into an artillery engagement.

For the spider race is greatly degenerate.

My future husband can never degenerate thus.

It's nothing but a nasty, degenerate habit.

Peter has degenerated into an ordinary farm.

Bad environment is produced by degenerate men.

Physically and mentally he was a degenerate.

Degenerates should never be allowed to marry.

The troops had degenerated into a mob.

Love preserves liberty from degenerating into license.

They are the worst kind of degenerates.

The battle now degenerated into a massacre.

In the meantime Sam was rapidly degenerating.

Each day the body degenerates a little.

Worth ten degenerate castles of modern days.

The First Blast to awake Women degenerate.

We must be very degenerate to permit it.

It seems to me so vulgar and degenerate.

He was born a degenerate and a murderer.

Relieve the male of these and he degenerates.

His esteem degenerated into a kind of superstition.

Taoism quickly degenerated into a system of magic.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

Likewise, it will very soon degenerate if neglected.

In these degenerate days it is not so.

The king's apathy was degenerating into despair.

Who says the modern Romans are degenerated?

They have degenerated rapidly since the war.

In other words, as a race we are degenerating.

"There is an air of degenerate decay about here."

These states are very common among degenerates.

How easy to cause this to degenerate into tyranny.

Well, that fellow was nothing degenerate physically.

The contest sometimes degenerates into extreme bitterness.

And has not the passenger degenerated too?

And the effort sometimes degenerated into restlessness.

See how you are degenerating step by step.

The breeds were various and often were degenerated.

They must degenerate more and more, I think!

He had degenerated into less than a man!

What language can be low and degenerate enough?

Reform will degenerate into revolution, conquest into desolation.

Like all degenerates, they are under medium height.

Must we sacrifice ourselves to this degenerate Fatherland?

The life of the countryside had also degenerated.

They seem to have degenerated rather than developed.

Degenerate and vulgar souls are unworthy of philosophy.

His sharpest satire never degenerates into personal abuse.

Quite sure the noble was not a degenerate?

The road degenerated as we approached the city.

These relations are quite otherwise in the degenerate.

To-day more degenerate individuals are born than formerly.

The incensed hero looked for his degenerate son.

A discussion began which degenerated into an uproar.

One must not let kindness degenerate into weakness.

Of course, the Martians are a degenerated race.

Her figure must not be allowed to degenerate.

Luxury became more fashionable; morals began to degenerate.

It is easy to play with words like "degenerates."

It has even degenerated into cowardly fear of censure.

Vitality becomes lowered, and the type degenerates.

Your country is too young to be wholly degenerate.

All the symptoms of degenerate life were in her.

This pottery degenerates later and finally disappears.

Of course, it may easily degenerate into this state.

That head smiled in vain upon this degenerate pair.

No such dust is made in these degenerate days.